Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.